A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandonned poetry and travelled across Europe before settling in Africa as an arms trader. This edition sets the two sides of Rimbaud side by side with a sparkling translation of his most exhilarating poetry and a generous selection of the letters from the harsh and colourful period of his life as a colonial trader.
Ce livre bilingue offre au lecteur l'un des poèmes les plus tumultueux d'Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer, en français et en créole haïtien, et une introduction de 35 pages. Cet impressionnant texte littéraire renvoie à la liaison amoureuse, à la fois créative et violente, du jeune Arthur Rimbaud avec le poète Paul Verlaine.
A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France's infamous rebel poet.
Poet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious career of the poet Arthur Rimbaud is one of the legends of modern literature. By the time he was twenty, Rimbaud had written a series of poems that are not only masterpieces in themselves but that forever transformed the idea of what poetry is. Without him, surrealism is inconceivable, and his influence is palpable in artists as diverse as Henry Miller, John Ashbery, Bob Dylan, and Patti Smith. In this essential volume, renowned translator Mark Polizzotti offers authoritative and inspired new versions of Rimbaud's major poems and letters, including generous selection of Illuminations and the entirety of his lacerating confession A Season in Hell--capturing as never before not only the meaning but also the daredevil attitudes and incantatory rhythms that make Rimbaud's works among the most perpetually modern of his or any other generation.
Ce carnet suit une route, celle empruntée d'abord par Arthur Rimbaud au crépuscule du XIXe siècle, puis réempruntée par Éric Guglielmi sur les traces du poète à l'aube du XXIe. Alexandrie, Attigny, Le Caire, Calais, Charleroi, Civitavecchia, Deville, Harar, Hargnies, Les Hautes-Rivières, Laifour, Londres, Monthermé, Obock, Ostende, Renwez, Roche, Rome, Tadjoura, Voncq... Ces images d'aujourd'hui se rendent complices des métaphores d'hier. C'est aussi simple qu'une phrase musicale.
